Libertarian Times

by Kevin Carson
http://c4ss.org/?p=8757^[1]

Hardly a week goes by without me seeing another think piece on the question: “Are we winning the war on drugs?”

That depends on who “we” is. The War on Drugs has certainly served some very powerful interests in our society. Between the Drug War and the War on Terror, we’ve militarized police culture with SWAT

I don’t have time for a long comment, and am only 1,000 words into chapter 2 of my novel. But no one in the LA has commented on the Woolwich murder.

This has key implications for liberty, not least because it is argued that the government’s snoopers’ charter proposal is a good idea in order to combat Islamic extremism. Islamic extremism in our cou

The consequences of corruption we now witness in our statist system are nothing compared to the financial consequences looming from government's unfunded liabilites. Kevin Williamson has written^[1] about this, as I have for 7 years now.

 Williamson believes, as I believe, the coming financial crisis can be an opportunity for Americans to pull tog

This is a difficult subject. First, let me say that defense of our national security is a top priority of government. Government has very few legitimate functions, but defense of our borders is one of if not the most important. The American people don't need to live in fear of foreign attack, and we should have the peace of mind that goes with a

The status quo in DC can't be trusted, and this is not a flippant statement regarding general distrust in government. Our political culture is eroding due to deception, cronyism, incompetence and unlimited power. Our political culture is corrupt. The Center-Left alliance shows signs of concern with all the scandals surfacing lately, but, as I said

by Roderick T. Beaman 

My oldest brother, Thomas, was an engineer and was selected for Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. I had a brother who was three or four years younger but he died at the age of four of spinal meningitis. It was a fulminant case and took him in just 24 hours.

My next brother, Richard, also received an engineering

David Davis

In the late afternoons of our lives, various thoughts occur. I had a cyberchat with my colleague, the Dear Leader of the Libertarian Alliance, Dr Sean Gabb, at some indeterminate time overnight last night. We both agreed on some things:-

(1) He and I have spent the best part of our adult lives keeping on keeping on keeping on saying the

After Cass Sunstein explained to us how an enlightened government must nudge American dummies who don't know what's best their lives, some of us warned that the nudge would eventually become something more forceful. Yesterday, we saw Congress muscle the Apple CEO because he hasn't paid his fair share of taxes according to the politicians.

After Cass Sunstein explained to us how an enlightened government must nudge American dummies who don't know what's best their lives, some of us warned that the nudge would eventually become something more forceful. Yesterday, we saw Congress muscle the Apple CEO because he hasn't paid his fair share of taxes according to the politicians.